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No, there's no issue apart from the fact that it's DSC and not on its normal vessel. I'm pretty certain of that. The Ofcom documents are pretty waffely on this.

If I buy a handheld DSC Radio in the UK is it OK to use it on charter in Greece?

Thanks to everyone for all the input. I have spoken to Adam as he got lots of votes both here and on Facebook. This will probably be a job for next winter not this - certainly if he does it.

I have many nav apps that can record tracks in various ways. For some purposes I use Navionics on Android. My interest here is in getting the tracks out of Navionics. Usually there are several people running Navionics on any cruise. Sometimes I like to make images of a cruise track shown...

As I said, the boat is in good condition. She is a larch on oak clinker hull. Some of the brightwork in mahogany, the transom is teak and the cap rails are Iroko - new 7 years ago.. The hull was stripped to the bare wood two years ago and all defects discovered repaired, The combings were...

Who in Scotland would you get to do a significant refit and tart-up on an old wooden boat? (Launched 1965. She is in fairly good condition and has been sailing every season for the last 20 years.)

I am a bit of a dipstick. gpsu (GPS Utility - Home) which I already have, does the job very well.

Thanks I'll look into that again. I did try it, among many solutions but I can't remember why I couldn't get it to work. I think my file was to big to upload!

I might be missing something, but I can't find anything in the help. This is not an issue if you stay within the navionics world. However, if you export a track as gpx to import into other mapping software you run into problems with a huge file, which could have been a hundred times smaller...

I use Navionics on an android tablet. It records trackpoints every second. I have a track with over 200 thousand points. For my purposes it could record a hundred times less and still be useful. Can this be configured? I haven't found a way.

Thanks everyone. The marina lent me a good quality drill pump - jabsco. It worked perfectly. My draper one couldn't hack it.

With my long keeler the bow points in to much and the stern swings off. The trick is to put the warp on the sheet winch not the midship cleat. Exception when the wind is blowing hard off the berth, when the midship cleat is better.

Interesting, can you send a link or name for the pump? I'll be very keen to see if it works? When will we know?

Muck in my fuel. I'd like to empty the tank and see what is going on. One friend reports pumping the diesel out using a drill pump. I bought the only one I could find locally - Draper. It won't suck even a very modest height and is not self-priming, Has anyone done this, and with what pump?

Good to see success, but I'm baffled as to why you didn't just make it out of aluminium like the mast. It would have been dead easy - mine was.